Over the next few days, AWS will be issuing an emergency patch, and will be rebooting a substantial number of EC2 instances. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) AWS-reboot-preparedness checklist for Mongo users.

Rapid growth can be a double-edged sword. There are times when success can be a company’s worst enemy, especially if their cloud platform can’t handle such swift growth and acceleration. Since we formed more than three years ago, we’ve crunched over 4 terabytes of data, and that’s growing at a rate of about 30 percent per month. We had a choice: manage our infrastructure or build and market product. Read how we were able to keep our business growing.